Principal Professor Dame Sally Mapstone is pictured with Alyssa Melville from SRCS and Professor Sir Ian Boyd, chair of the St Andrews Prize judging panel. The South Rupununi Conservation Society (SRCS) of Guyana has been awarded the prestigious St Andrews Prize for the Environment, receiving a $95,000 cash prize for its ‘Transforming Environmental Education in…
The Teme Valley Environment Group (TVEG) has been running for around 20 years, but concerns for its future have arisen recently. The group, created in 2007, held a meeting this week in order to try and drum up new members, as there are only four people on the committee. The meeting was held at Knighton…
NFU publishes key policy asks The NFU publishes its policy asks ahead of the government’s consultation on a Land Use Framework. The NFU is conscious that there are huge demands being made on land including the needs of agricultural production (food and non-food), for leisure and recreation, requirements for biodiversity net gain, protected landscapes, and…
On a cloudless sunny day in October 1950, ornithologists Elizabeth and David Lack stood on a mountain pass in the Pyrenees and observed a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle – clouds of migrating insects. The Puerto de Bujaruelo pass in 2021 Up to 500 butterflies were fluttering past them every hour through the 2,200m-high Puerto de Bujaruelo mountain…
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About 7% of England’s land – an area roughly two-and-a-half times the size of Cornwall – will need to be given over to nature, forests and renewable energy, to meet the UK’s environmental targets, new data shows. But there will still be enough land to grow the food needed, and to house a growing population,…
The JRA 2026 National Seminar ‘Young Reporters for the Environment’ took place in Agueda between February 27th and March 1st, 2026. During three days, around 120 students and teachers gathered from across the country to promote environmental journalism and sustainability. “Make a better world” “Make a better world” is one of the key conclusions emerging…
The European Union – once the undisputed champion of emissions reduction – is now betting on a more transactional approach to climate finance, direct outreach to big emitters abroad, and a changing of the guard to make a comeback on the global scene. A disastrous COP30 summit last year saw things get so bad for…
Who crawled along Snail’s Bottom? Who found beauty on Bonnyleigh Hill? Who measured Little Acre Farm? This small patch of Somerset – like everywhere else in Britain – is a storied landscape, every feature named and memorialised by mostly forgotten individuals. Our job over the next two hours is to take one such name, one…
Kent County Council’s (KCC) Shake It Out recycling campaign is continuing to gain momentum, with residents across the county taking on the simple but important action that makes a big difference: shaking recyclable items out of plastic bags and placing them loose into the recycling bin. Source link
